holy crap ... packrat gets archaeological

Submitted by mivox on 22 July, 2006 - 12:10am.

I was going to try painting this weekend. I still might. But then I thought it might first be cool to photograph my old artwork ... which involves actually digging it out and getting it all in one place. Which took a couple hours longer than I expected. But wow.

That was cool. There's stuff I drew in high school that I still look at and go, "Damn, that's good." And of course there's much more recent stuff that makes me cringe. But it was fascinating looking back at where my head was all those years ago (and wondering where it went for all the years I wasn't drawing ...).

So I guess that's my project when I'm not scrambling to finish a couple of other jobs this weekend: Photographing all this stuff, and putting it online somewhere. Probably on flickr for storage, but I might start a new subdomain to display it all. sketchbook.mivox.com or something? Dunno. But I want to get some of it in an alternate storage format sooner rather than later. Lord knows I haven't always been extra careful in how I stored all of it.

What a trip!

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Now saving for a 'genuine Knezek'
Submitted by Allen (not verified) on 22 July, 2006 - 3:26pm.

Darn.
From the title I thought perhaps you were going on eBay. I mean if a 'Virgin Mary grilled cheese' went for $28000 then genuine 'holy crap' would put you on the Forbes list next to Sergey and Larry.
Ah well.

My drawing ability being limited to stick men (guys with guns - I was young and fought paper battles - my mother objecting to blood) I have the greatest admiration of those who can render a moment for posterity. Add artistic to the Mivox attribute list: addition failed; reason: it's already there.
I do believe I feel an envy attack coming on.

You got the talent, use it.
Looking forward to viewing your portfolio and anticipating your new works. Will start saving my pennies for a 'genuine Knezek'. That even sounds expensive ;-)

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HA. I only wish!
Submitted by mivox on 22 July, 2006 - 4:38pm.

Yes, real holy crap would forever free me from concerns about spending my time "working" ... I could just make art all the time. Or not! HAHAHAHAHAHAA

Alas, that's not the case.

And, while I am really happy with a lot of the old 'art' I dug up last night, I must say it's mostly eye candy. I think that's part of the reason I never stuck with it enough to make a career out of it ... it's all pinups and sketches of role-playing characters and horses and naked women with pensive looks on their faces. Hardly anything you'd even consider "finished" much less "meaningful".

Of course people do make happy livings doing commercial art with pretty much no greater meaning or purpose ... and artists like Nagel and Coop had/have very successful careers with not much else than eye candy. But I think the naked pensive women are really the only thing that had much potential as "Art" with a capital A, and they're all unfinished pencil sketches.

FWIW.

I've been thinking quite a bit about it just these last couple days. ;-)

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